Black Students Mental Health & Wellbeing

Our protocol for the Black Student Wellbeing Study is out in @BMJ_Open 🙌🏾👏🏾 If you'd like to learn more about our work sharing stories of Black student mental health journeys, you can read the open-access article here 👇🏾 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/2/e…

The team have been touring the UK with our racial trauma and radical healing workshops! 👏🏾🙏🏾 We're glad universities recognise the importance of supporting safe spaces for Black students to engage in community support 🖤 #BlackMentalHealthMatters #AcademicTwitter #education

PhD thesis submitted 🙏🏾 "Black university students' mental health and wellbeing whilst navigating racism in UK education institutions: A lifecourse perspective" This journey hasn't been easy. Baby Nkasi would be so proud 😭 #PhDlife #AcademicChatter #Thesis #PhDone

On #UniMentalHealthDay we're excited to announce @ukblm is supporting our work on improving Black university students' mental health and wellbeing!! 🙏🏾👏🏾 Please follow and share so we can reach as many Black students as possible 🖤 #BlackLivesMatter

One thing we hear a lot is Black students wanting to be seen as "whole people" with likes, dislikes, hobbies, and personalities that aren't just connected to excelling in academia. Improving access to Black students being able to enjoy their passions is also anti-racist work 👏🏾

Let's prioritise Black university students' mental health this #Blackhistorymonth2022 👏🏾

I have many skills, but logo designing isn't one of them 😅 Showcasing my skills for #BlackHistoryMonth

Researching racial trauma and mental health in Black students as a Black PhD student with a mental illness has been one of the most rewarding but expensive things I've ever done 🫠 Almost 20% of my monthly stipend goes on therapy and medications 🥲 #phdlife #phdchat

Beyond proud of future Dr @yyalipende another Black man in clinical psychology! 💪🏾👏🏾🙏🏾🎉 Excited for the future of @BPTwellbeing 🖤

Our latest blog is now live! In this month’s post, we take a look at our top #mentalhealth papers this year according to Altmetric score. Find it here 👉 bit.ly/3APa1Jb

Our quali review on Black university students' mental health was given a shout out by @BMJ_Open 🙏🏾🥺 Would love to hear any thoughts on our work! 👉🏾 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35228276/ @AcademicChatter #phdchat

It was a privilege to be asked to attend the @UKParliament @Rethink_ 50th anniversary event! @JeffSmithetc & @GillianKeegan gave fab speeches about the importance of tackling health inequalities 👏🏾 Feeling inspired to use my PhD research to inform much needed policy change!

Grateful for @KingsCollegeLon for recognising the hard work that's gone into growing @BPTwellbeing & @BSWstudy 👏🏾 I hope we can continue to make universities better spaces for Black students to achieve everything they want out of their journey 👏🏾🙌🏾🙏🏾✨ #BlackInMentalHealth

Excited to say I've been offered a spot on the clinical psych doctorate program @UoSPsychD. First time applying, 3 rejections & 1 successful interview. My family, friends, partner, and mentors got me here and I'm eternally grateful 🙏🏿 Dr Yalipende loading..... #PsychTwitter

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To find out more about my PhD study and keep up to date on our findings follow @BSWstudy! We have some more research outputs in the pipeline 📝 Check out the paper on @BMJ_Open: dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjope…

📢 My first paper from my PhD @BSWstudy is out in @BMJ_Open! Mental health and mental well-being of Black students at UK universities: a review and thematic synthesis I've written a 🧵 on some of the findings. Please share! P.s read the paper here 👉🏾 dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjope…

@Unite_Student invited me to write this blog on living and working in student accommodation as a Black student. I've lived in 5 student halls and experienced and witnessed racism every. single. time. Many of us have and it can destroy our mental health. unitestudents.com/the-common-roo…

Our qualitative study on organisational culture and racialised inequalities among NHS healthcare staff has been published open access in @SHIjournal: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…